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Walt Whitman&the World Edited by Gay Wilson Allen & Ed Folsom This book started as an updating of Gay Wilson Allen’s Walt Whitman Abroad (1955), but it turned into a project trying to capture the ongoing poetic dialogue with Whitman around the world for more than a century, a kind of resistant “talking back” to […] […] Josip, Dragan, Bojana, Elma, Indira, Sanja, and Neda showing off their new bookmarks (courtesy of Elma). …that’s right, Walt Whitman has made the headlines in Serbia! Test your knowledge of Cyrillic while learning a little bit about what we’re doing over here: http://www.novosti.rs/upload/documents/dodaci/2009/11nov/kd1125-online.pdf We’re on the second page (p.22, really). And what does Walt […] “The American Experience : Walt Whitman” is a program about Walt Whitman’s life and his literary work. It consists of eleven video clips that represent each of important periods in the life of this great poet. The introduction is very exciting. The video starts with the reading of his lines, love scene by the river […] […] Walt Whitman’s America by David S. Reynolds is trying to reconstruct the life and times of, as it states, “one of America’s most representative poets”. Furthermore it gives a wider historical background to his life and writings. But Walt Whitman’s poems do not fall into one single historical category. Not even in a double or […] […] On the 150th anniversary of publishing the third edition of “Leaves of Grass”, facsimile edition has been published. The covers of the book remind Whitmaniacs how it looked like so many years ago. Instead of looking up for the old texts on the internet, readers can have this old-new edition in their hands. Whitman’s 1860 […] […] Even though well in the 21st century, most of us are used to the good old-fashioned research; read and read and read. The high quality documentaries (both, production-wise and content-wise) like this one are a good reminder that, in the era of mass media, we have more access to the all sorts of data […] […] This, fourth chapter of Folsom’s and Price’s article was particularly interesting to me, and I believe it will be more than helpful. It not only concentrates on the very edition and the very cluster we are interested in, but it also provides a great deal of information about the circumstances that (might have) influenced […] […] ”Whitman Making Books, Books Making Whitman” by Ed Folsom URL: http://www.whitmanarchive.org/criticism/current/anc.00150.html All Times&Moods of the Good Gray Poet An outline of Whitman’s work which opens a new perspective to his work, drawing our attention to the whole range of Whitman’s bookmaking activities and revealing how those skills influenced his work, but also how those mere […] […] Here we have a sort of the duel (which is here a nice way to say a fight) of two professors who had a difference of opinions concerning one sequence of twelve poems that Whitman wrote in the period between 1856 – 1859 and which he entitled Live Oak, with Moss (or Live Oak […] […] Hershel Parker also deals with the twelve poems that constitute the Live Oak, with Moss sequence. He identifies the time they originated – ‘within two years or so’ of the publication of 1856 edition of Leaves of Grass. In early 1859, according Parker, Whitman copied these twelve poems in a notebook under the title […] […] |